Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Tonga and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Easy Going to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by the Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Lightning Bolt,
The Mummies,
Juan Atkins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Michelle Simonal,
Marine Girls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Albert Ayler,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Amon Düül II,
Hoover,
Neil Young,
Negative Approach,
Dennis Brown,
Arab on Radar,
Drexciya,
T.S.O.L.,
MC5,
Todd Terry,
The Busters,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Slackers,
Kayak,
Tommy Roe,
Cal Tjader,
Cybotron,
Malaria!,
U.S. Maple,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Tres Demented,
Grauzone,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rites of Spring,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ohio Players,
The Neon Judgement,
John Cale,
Gang Green,
The Smoke,
Dave Gahan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Association,
X-101,
Bang On A Can,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flash Fearless,
Grey Daturas,
Q65,
Pulsallama,
Country Teasers,
Gang Gang Dance,
These Immortal Souls,
The Dirtbombs,
Boz Scaggs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dual Sessions,
Gil Scott Heron,
Funkadelic,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.